Unit 5: Early Greek Art and Architecture

Question 1

Mediterranean influences on greek art

Answer 1

was influenced by other areas style of art

Question 2

Answer 2

kneeling youth from Samos
600 BCE

Question 3

why are there no known greek female artists?

Answer 3

they were often kept in the house

Question 4

Answer 4

Goddess from Artemision of Delos
650 BCE

Question 5

Kouros

Answer 5

male (depicted naked)

Question 6

Answer 6

Kouros from Tenea
570 BCE

Question 7

Kore

Answer 7

Female (depicted fully clothed)

Question 8

Answer 8

Peplos Kore
570 BCE

Question 9

Art conservation

Answer 9

uses chemistry to remake pigment or determine appeareance

Question 10

painted statues

Answer 10

Most statues were actually painted. Colour came off and now everything is thought to always have been white

Question 11

Kritios boy

Answer 11

shows transition from Koures (idealized youth) to more naturalistic (still idealized, but more natural)

Question 12

Answer 12

Kritios Boy

Question 13

Contrapposto

Answer 13

emphasis on showing people as they actually are (natural poses)

Question 14

Answer 14

Charioteer of Delphi
478-474 BCE
has open posture, but is equally balanced

Question 15

Answer 15

Warrior from Riace
500-400BCE

Question 16

Answer 16

Doryphorous by Polycitus
Original bronze by greeks
Marble by romans

Question 17

the canon

Answer 17

• a system of rulers
• accepted texts
• greeks had canon for poses and figures

Question 18

Answer 18

The pathenon
Greece
to make it symmetrical, they had to make it irregular and asymmetrical

Question 19

columns

Answer 19

simple top=doric
curly cue = ionic
plant life = corinthian

Question 20

Answer 20

doric

Question 21

Answer 21

ionic

Question 22

Answer 22

corinthian

Question 23

Answer 23

coins
443-400BCE
developed visual culture

Question 24

Answer 24

Etruscan She wolf
500BCE
idealized, started off as just a wolf and later was added too

Question 25

Answer 25

Etruscan She wolf modified with babies Romulus and Remus. Became a propaganda story about rulers for the people of Rome

Question 26

Why are females not depicted naked in early greek and roman art?

Answer 26

Were kept in the house. They were prized for modesty, not sexuality

Question 27

Male nudity in early Greece

Answer 27

Built around upper class with older guys hanging out with younger male lover.
The object of desire in greek culture is a young man

Question 28

Answer 28

drinking cup

Question 29

Answer 29

Vase by Exekias
540-530BCE
One of first found pieces that artist signed

Question 30

Answer 30

caryatids
erecthion/acropolis
400BCE
represent maidens of goddess

Question 31

Shift in female nudity

Answer 31

trends shift and women start being depicted naked. Still reference clothing/modesty by trying to cover up with hands

Question 32

Pudic gesture

Answer 32

covering of chest and genital area with hands. is a symbol of modesty or shame

Question 33

Answer 33

Aphrodite
is doing pudic gesture

Question 34

Where does the term porne come from?

Answer 34

greek word for common prostitutes